Table 5.

Numbers of interns applying for professional body and charitable funding

	Total applying	Total successful	NMC success (N = 11)	HCPC success (N = 14)	Other success (N = 0)
Professional body and charitable research fundinga	24	18 (71%)	7	11
Other career pathway fundingb	21	11 (52%)	3	7	1

^aExamples: Royal College of Nursing PhD funding, Pharmacy Research United Kingdom Training Bursary, Chartered Society of Physiotherapy Charitable Trust; ^bExamples: CLAHRCs (Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care), National Institute for Health Research Contingency funding, Health Education England-funded bridging programmes and employer-funded MRes

HCPC Health and Care Professions Council, NMC Nursing and Midwifery Council